Run Musings

Getting Checked – Is it Necessary? Hello everyone, Thanks a ton for the feedback provided on my first blog – “ It’s fun to run ”. Appreciate the time taken by each one of you to read. It was heartening to see many leave a comment for me either on Facebook or on the blog. So, here I am with my second article. This is about the first point mentioned in “ It’s fun to run ” – Visit your doctor. So, when I tell many of my friends, who want to take up running or our new trainees in RunBurn Coaching to go and visit a doctor before we actually start training – more often than not they say – I am fit, why should I visit any doctor. Now, there are two scenarios in which a person is going start a fitness regime – either walking/running or going to gym. He/she has been advised by a doctor to take up some kind of exercise Self-realization or peer/friends’ pressure If your reason to start exercising is the first one – then you have already done with your v

It’s fun to run!!! The brief intro that I am about to give is primarily to give confidence to each one who is reading this article that, “ANYONE CAN RUN!” I am a long distance runner…& my biggest compliment “42Kms!!! Are you crazy?” and the best running comment received while doing a trail run by a villager “Kashala Dhawtoys, pahila alela ghari gela.” (Why are u running? The guy who came first has gone home!) As I write this blog I have completed 2 Ultra Marathons, 2 Full Marathons, 23 half marathon runs, 21 - 10 km runs. Completed 1500 kms of running in the calendar year 2013 and 2015. Have been an official pacer at 6 events and unofficially paced several friends to achieve their running objectives. I am a certified long distance running coach from American College of Sports Medicine and Exercise Science Academy. I currently coach people to take up running to remain fit. RunBurn is my attempt to spread awareness about running with two other friends - Dhananjay &